BELMOPAN Fri. July 3, 2020– Glenford Patterson, 27, a laborer of Ontario, who had been remanded since October 2018 on charges of attempted murder, aggravated burglary and use of deadly means of harm, was taken today to the Belmopan Magistrate’s Court, where he appeared in front of Magistrate Johnelle Villanueva for the committal of the case against him to a trial in the Supreme Court. But after examining the evidence produced by the defense and the prosecution, the trial magistrate found that the accused had not been properly identified.
Patterson’s attorney, Hurl Hamilton, made a no-case submission, and the magistrate agreed, and Patterson was acquitted.
Hamilton told reporters that there was no evidence for a Supreme Court trial.
Police said that in October 2018, Simeon Alvaro Perez, who was the caretaker for a property in Ontario, had just arrived at the house when he saw a commotion at the house, and saw that four men were robbing the family.
Perez himself came under attack. One of the men stabbed him about 12 times in his chest, back, abdomen and arm, and one of the bandits beat him in the head with a shovel.
The men then left the house with the stolen items.
ACP Joseph Myvett said that investigations had led to Glenford Patterson of the village, and he was detained and later charged with the offenses, and remanded.